Rose 'Lynda Bellingham' - Hybrid Tea Rose (Also known as 'Harwise')
A spectacular tribute hybrid tea rose producing masses of exquisite, large multi-petalled blooms in beautiful peach-pink tones with rich, spicy fragrance, complemented by glossy dark green disease-resistant foliage, compact sturdy growth, and excellent garden performance, making it perfect for memorial gardens, cutting displays, containers, and anywhere heartwarming beauty with exceptional reliability is desired.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous hybrid tea rose
- Eventual Height: 1m
- Eventual Spread: 70cm
- Flowering Period: June to September
- Flower Colour: Peach-pink with blush pink outer petals
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Compact, upright and sturdy
- Flower Type: Large double blooms with 50 petals in spiral bud form
- Fragrance: Strong rich spicy fragrance (rating 5-6)
Overview
Rose 'Lynda Bellingham' stands as a truly special tribute rose, bred by Harkness Roses and introduced in 2015 to honour the beloved actress and television presenter, offering a heartwarming celebration through its exquisite peachy-pink blooms and captivating rich spicy fragrance. This enchanting hybrid tea rose produces big, multi-petalled flowers with 50 petals that transition from delicate light blush pink buds to reveal rich peach tones in the flower centre, creating a stunning colour evolution that contrasts beautifully against glossy dark green foliage. The spectacular blooms showcase classic spiral bud form that opens to display the intricate beauty of the substantial petal arrangement, whilst the strong rich spicy fragrance adds aromatic dimension that enhances any garden setting. With its compact sturdy growth habit reaching 1m, disease-resistant glossy medium green foliage that provides perfect colour contrast, excellent repeat flowering from late spring through to first frosts, and manageable spread making it ideal for smaller spaces, 'Lynda Bellingham' delivers outstanding garden performance with meaningful tribute significance, making it ideal for memorial plantings, cutting gardens, container cultivation, and anywhere heartwarming beauty with exceptional garden excellence is desired.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Lynda Bellingham' lies in its masses of exquisite, large multi-petalled blooms that showcase perfect hybrid tea spiral bud form with exceptional colour evolution and substantial aromatic presence. Each flower displays beautiful light blush pink outer petals that open to reveal rich peach shading in the flower centre, arranged in classic spiral formation with 50 substantial petals that create blooms of remarkable beauty and garden impact. The unique colour transition from pink buds to peachy centres provides spectacular displays that evolve throughout the flowering period, creating dynamic colour interest that symbolises warmth and celebration. The flowers are produced abundantly on the compact sturdy plant from late spring through to first frosts, opening from beautifully formed spiral buds that add elegant anticipation to the garden display. The strong rich spicy fragrance complements the spectacular visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both tribute garden themes and everyday garden enjoyment with heartwarming significance.
Growth Characteristics
This hybrid tea rose displays compact sturdy growth with upright bushy habit, reaching 1m in height with a manageable spread of 70cm, creating impressive garden presence whilst fitting perfectly into smaller garden spaces throughout the growing season. The sturdy stems provide excellent support for the abundant large flower displays, making this variety particularly valuable for cutting and formal garden applications where stem strength and flower presentation are crucial. The glossy dark green foliage is produced abundantly with excellent disease resistance, creating attractive healthy backdrop that perfectly complements the peach-pink blooms whilst maintaining excellent appearance throughout the growing season. The compact yet vigorous growth ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial garden impact that fits exceptionally well into diverse garden settings from small beds and borders to containers.
Flowering Performance
From late spring through to first frosts, 'Lynda Bellingham' delivers exceptional flowering displays with reliable repeat blooming that continues consistently throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces masses of large, multi-petalled flowers continuously, creating substantial visual impact with reliable performance that ensures ongoing garden celebration. The individual blooms develop with classic spiral bud form, allowing gardeners to appreciate the perfect colour evolution from blush pink to peach and exceptional spicy fragrance, whilst the substantial 50-petal structure ensures each flower maintains its elegant appearance for extended periods. The prolific flowering nature ensures spectacular displays throughout the season, with the abundant peach-pink blooms providing continuous focal points that brighten garden spaces with their warm colour evolution and strong spicy fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Lynda Bellingham' thrives in full sun to partial shade with fertile, well-drained soil, requiring good drainage whilst maintaining consistent moisture for optimal performance and fragrance development. The rose adapts well to moderately fertile soils and responds excellently to an open, bright aspect where the beautiful peach-pink colours can be fully appreciated and the strong spicy fragrance can be enjoyed. For best results, plant in sunny positions with good air circulation, incorporating well-rotted organic matter to support the vigorous flowering and healthy foliage development. The variety benefits from regular feeding and responds well to standard rose care practices, whilst the compact size makes it particularly suitable for diverse garden situations including small beds, borders, and container cultivation.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
One of the most notable features of 'Lynda Bellingham' is its excellent disease resistance, which significantly reduces maintenance requirements and ensures healthy growth throughout the season. The variety demonstrates strong resistance to common rose diseases, making it more resilient than most other roses and particularly suitable for reliable plantings where consistent performance is essential. The healthy glossy dark green foliage remains attractive and vigorous with natural disease resistance, making it an excellent choice for low-maintenance gardening approaches where reliable performance with minimal intervention is desired. The excellent hardiness ensures reliable performance in UK conditions with good winter tolerance.
Care and Maintenance
'Lynda Bellingham' requires standard hybrid tea rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and fragrance intensity. Apply balanced rose fertiliser in early spring and again in early summer, with regular deep watering during dry periods to support the compact growth and abundant flower production. The excellent disease resistance means this variety requires minimal intervention beyond standard care practices, making it suitable for busy gardeners seeking reliable tribute plantings with meaningful significance. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular display throughout the season, whilst annual pruning in late winter maintains the compact sturdy shape and promotes strong new growth for optimal flowering performance and fragrance development.
Garden Applications
'Lynda Bellingham' excels in tribute gardens and compact plantings where its meaningful significance and spectacular performance can be fully appreciated. The exquisite peach-pink blooms make it ideal for memorial plantings, small garden features, and special displays where heartwarming beauty and reliable performance are essential. Perfect for small beds and borders, this rose provides outstanding cut flowers with sturdy stems and excellent vase life that enhance floral arrangements with both spectacular beauty and strong spicy fragrance. The compact growth and abundant flowering make it particularly suitable for creating intimate displays in small gardens, whilst the manageable size ensures it fits perfectly into diverse garden settings from traditional cottage gardens to contemporary compact landscapes.
Container Growing
The compact size and sturdy growth make 'Lynda Bellingham' exceptionally well-suited to container cultivation for patios, balconies, and tribute displays. The rose thrives in containers where its beautiful peach-pink blooms can create spectacular focal points and the strong spicy fragrance can be appreciated at close quarters, making it perfect for terraces and seating areas where heartwarming beauty is desired. Choose containers at least 50cm wide and deep with excellent drainage, using high-quality multipurpose compost enriched with slow-release fertiliser. Container-grown specimens require more frequent watering and feeding than ground-planted roses, but the spectacular tribute displays and exceptional fragrance make this worthwhile for special plantings and meaningful garden celebrations.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Lynda Bellingham' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous colour evolution and reliable aromatic performance. Spring brings the emergence of glossy dark green foliage and the first beautifully formed spiral buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The spectacular peach-pink blooms from late spring through to first frosts provide months of evolving colour that maintains beauty throughout the season, creating consistent seasonal impact with heartwarming tribute significance. The attractive disease-resistant foliage remains healthy throughout the season, providing perfect backdrop for the spectacular flower displays, whilst the compact upright branching structure provides strong architectural interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Lynda Bellingham' features strong rich spicy fragrance rated 5-6 that complements the spectacular visual display and enhances the garden experience with exceptional aromatic appeal. The powerful spicy fragrance adds outstanding aromatic interest to outdoor spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for cutting gardens where both visual beauty and intense aromatic qualities are desired. The rich spicy scent enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where fragrance contributes significantly to the garden experience, particularly near seating areas, pathways, and windows where the exceptional aromatic qualities can be fully appreciated.
Companion Planting
The beautiful peach-pink colouring of 'Lynda Bellingham' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and sophisticated colour schemes. The warm peach tones work magnificently with cream and yellow flowers for harmonious warm displays that highlight both the tribute significance and garden beauty, whilst purple and blue flowers create sophisticated colour contrasts. Silver and grey foliage plants complement the peach-pink tones whilst white flowers provide elegant displays. The compact growth makes it suitable for planting with smaller perennials and herbs that enhance the garden's tribute atmosphere throughout the growing season.
Heritage and Innovation
'Lynda Bellingham' represents exceptional hybrid tea breeding achievement by Harkness Roses, introduced in 2015 specifically to honour the beloved actress and television presenter with outstanding garden performance. The variety demonstrates breeding excellence that successfully integrated meaningful tribute significance with exceptional flower quality, strong fragrance, excellent disease resistance, and compact growth, creating a rose that satisfies both commemorative purposes and practical gardening requirements. The breeding achievement brings together outstanding flowering abundance, compact vigorous growth, and meaningful tribute significance that makes this variety particularly valuable for memorial plantings and tribute gardens.
Tribute Significance
One of the most valued features of 'Lynda Bellingham' is its specific purpose to honour the beloved actress and television presenter, making it uniquely meaningful for tribute garden displays and commemorative plantings. The beautiful peach-pink colour evolution symbolises warmth and celebration of life, whilst the abundant flowering represents the joy and continuing influence of cherished memories. This tribute significance, combined with exceptional garden performance, makes it particularly appealing to gardeners seeking roses with both meaningful symbolism and practical excellence for creating lasting tribute displays.
Cut Flower Excellence
The excellent cut flower qualities make 'Lynda Bellingham' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to create meaningful floral arrangements and honour special occasions. The sturdy stems, large multi-petalled blooms, and strong spicy fragrance create outstanding floral displays that provide lasting indoor enjoyment whilst filling rooms with tribute beauty and aromatic presence. The prolific flowering ensures plenty of blooms for cutting whilst maintaining garden displays, making it ideal for both garden beauty and exceptional commemorative arrangements.
Why Choose 'Lynda Bellingham'?
Rose 'Lynda Bellingham' represents the perfect combination of tribute significance, exceptional performance, and heartwarming beauty. The masses of exquisite peach-pink blooms with their strong rich spicy fragrance provide spectacular displays from late spring through to first frosts, whilst the compact sturdy growth and excellent disease resistance ensure reliable performance with minimal maintenance. Whether grown for tribute gardens, memorial plantings, compact garden features, or simply for its exceptional beauty and meaningful significance, this outstanding hybrid tea rose offers unique value that combines profound tribute meaning with outstanding garden excellence, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates life and cherished memories in any garden setting.
Reasons to Buy Roses from Jacksons Nurseries
(1) ‘Excellent’ on Trustpilot
Buy with confidence from the only online rose grower rated ‘Excellent’ 4.9* on Trustpilot. We have been a trusted supplier of roses for 3 generations. We take pride in growing our own roses in the field before potting them up, allowing for meticulous quality control to sale.
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Save £££s by buying direct from a grower you can trust. We’ve already price checked all of our roses against competitors so you don’t have to. We are so confident we offer the best value, if you find a rose of the same type and grade elsewhere, we’ll beat it by 10%.
(3) 12 Month Plants Guarantee
We offer a 12 month guarantee on every plant that you buy from us that we have classified as Fully Hardy. If a plant you've bought from us fails in the first year, we will either replace it or refund you. See our satisfaction guarantee page for more details and conditions.
(4) Third generation family-owned nursery specialising in roses
Jackson’s Nurseries is a 3rd generation family owned business which has been growing roses for over 60 years. Roses have always been our specialty, as you can see from the colourful array of blooms in the background to the old family photo below. Today, we offer over 200 different varieties of floribundas, hybrid teas, patio, shrub and David Austin roses. Our roses are initially grown in the field before being potted up for website dispatch.
(5) Grown at altitude to produce strong, healthy plants
Our North Staffordshire nursery is situated at 250 metres above sea level, producing strong, hardy plants that will thrive in your garden. Our nursery sits on clay, so you can be sure our roses can handle heavy soil too.
(6) Help & Advice and Aftercare
We are help to help you with any help and advice you need in choosing, planting and growing your roses before, during and after your purchase from us. The help and advice section of our website has extensive information, see below some examples of articles you may find useful:
- Different types of roses and what they each mean
- Guide to climbing roses
- Guide to floribunda roses
- Guide to hybrid tea roses
- How to plant a climbing rose
- How to grow hybrid tea roses
How our roses are supplied through the seasons
All our roses are cultivated in an open field and are carefully dug up when the weather is optimal, typically in October or November. While other nurseries supply roses bare root, once our field-grown roses have been potted up we supply them freshly potted. This better protects the roots and helps keep them moist in transit, ensuring your roses arrive as healthy as when they left our nursery. So don’t be alarmed if the compost comes away from the roots when you remove them from the pot.
The roses can remain in their pots over the winter, as long as they are properly watered and fed, but it's best to plant them out as soon as possible. If you do plant them straight away make sure the planting mix is prepared first, hold the root close to the top of the hole as you tip the pot upside down and try to keep as much compost as possible from falling away. They will already be pruned, so no additional pruning is needed except for trimming any dead tips. Regular pruning can start in late winter, the year after planting.
Rose Types
Hybrid Tea Roses (HT)
Hybrid Tea roses are probably the most popular group of roses, available in both bush and standard form they have long flower stems and shapely blooms. Blooms are typically medium to large in size, with many petals which form a distinct central cone.
Floribunda Roses (FL)
Floribunda roses bears its flowers in clusters or trusses, with several blooms open at time in each truss. A popular choice the Floribunda rose group is unrivalled for colour, reliability and longevity as a bedding display however the flower form in generally inferior to the Hybrid Tea.
Patio Roses (PATIO)
Patio roses were introduced in the 1980’s and the group now contains several popular varieties. Generally low-growing roses that were once grouped with the Floribuna group but have now been put in their own group of compact versions. Usually growing about 50cm high they make excellent plants for patio containers or at the front of borders.
Climbing Roses (CLM)
Climbing roses as the name suggests are the perfect choice for covering a wall or screen. Often grouped together with Ramblers, Climbers tend to have stiffer stems, larger flowers but smaller trusses than Ramblers.
Rambling Roses (RAM)
Rambling roses are often grouped with Climbing Roses but the ramblers tend to have a more pliable stems that can be used to run along the soil to use as groundcover or can be used to make weeping standards.
Miniature Roses (MINI)
Miniature roses have increased in popularity in recent years due to their versatility, even grown indoors as temporary pot plants that grow to a maximum height of 40cm. An ideal choice for planting in tubs, edging beds and rockeries.
English Roses (ENG)
Often referred to as Austin or David Austin Roses, English roses are hybrids of old English roses and more modern varieties bread by David Austin to provide the best of both, mixing old rose shapes and scents with more modern colour range, compact habits and repeat flowering.
Planting Advice
Roses like a generous root space, so dig a deep hole approximately twice as wide as the current root system, preferably adding composted organic matter to the soil. Never plant into frozen soil – in winter, await a frost-free period. Carefully remove the pot and gently tease the roots apart to spread them around the hole. Position the plant so that the ‘bud point’ (the place where the shoots emerge from, where the cultivated rose was grafted onto the rootstock) is at soil level. Replace the soil, firming it down gently, then water copiously. Ideally, a general purpose fertiliser should be applied to the surrounding soil as a top dressing. We also highly recommend the use of Rose Rootgrow, which provides a friendly fungus that prevents ‘rose replant syndrome’.
Buying our Roses
Pot Size
Most of our roses are supplied in a 4 litre pot although this may vary slightly depending on rose variety. If the size of pot differes significatly from 4 litres then we will make this clear somewhere on the product page.
Seasonality
Our roses are grown outdoors and as such are subject to seasonal changes. As we sell potted stock throughout the year your rose may not arrive and look like you expect it to. If you are uncertain how your rose will arrive (especially if buying for a gift) then we suggest you contact us prior to making a purchase.
Freshly Potted
Each year a new batch of roses is potted up ready for the following season. Once potted (usually November/December time) they go on sale as 'Freshly Potted'. If you purchase a freshly potted rose and plant it soon after you will find that when removing the rose from the pot there will be a lot of loose soil as the roots will not have had time to grow and bind the compost.
Pruned/Cut Back
In autumn the majority of our roses have finished flowering and begin to look untidy, at this point we prune them quite hard in preparation for the following season. We continue to sell roses throughout the year, when a rose has been pruned in such a way we will identify it has being so. If you are not sure what to expect then please ask prior to making a purchase. Some garden centres/supermarkets sell stock that has been grown abroad or in poly-tunnels so they look 'picture perfect' out of season, while this is ideal for a gift they are short lived once planted.
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